§ MR. THOMAS O'DONNELL (Kerry, W.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he can give an estimate of the number of public houses in Dublin voluntarily closed on the National holiday, St. Patrick's Day; and whether he can give the number of cases tried in Dublin police courts on Monday, 16th, and Wednesday, 18th March, and what comparison those figures bear to last year.
§ MR. WYNDHAM425 out of a total of 918 licensed houses in the Dublin Metropolitan Police District were voluntarily closed on St. Patrick's Day. The number of cases tried on the day following was thirty-two, compared with sixty-nine on the corresponding date of last year. There were eighty-nine cases tried on the 16th March, which, in 1902, fell on a Sunday.